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About This Activity

Get ready to get green and get silly! Come join 1000 costumed runners in the 25th Annual Leprechaun Lope. 100% of profits benefit Our Lady of Lourdes School. Watch for real leprechauns hiding along the courses! All races start at the State Capitol and finish in Memory Grove.The 10K starts at 8:30 AM sharp.The 5K starts at 8:40 AM sharp.The ~2 mile run run starts at 8:50 AM (not timed).

Registration

Online registration is closed. Race day registrations will be accepted starting at 7:30AM near the State Capitol. People registering after 8:15AM may not be timed and will have a choice of receiving a tech shirt from a previous year or picking up a this year's tech shirt from at Our Lady of Lourdes School in two weeks.The weather is looking great. There have already been several reports of leprechaun spottings in the area.The St. Patrick's Day Parade starts just after the race.

Packet Pick Up

Early packet pick up is at Our Lady of Lourdes School 1065 E 700 S, SLC on Thursday and Friday March 13th and 14th 4pm-8pm and on race day starting at 7:30AM near the starting line at the State Capitol. Our Lady of Lourdes K-8th grade is renown for its reading intervention program and its accelerated math program. Lourdes graduates excel at Judge Memorial High School.

Details

The 10K and 5K courses are US Track and Field Certified. The 10K course proceeds up City Creek Canyon about two miles then circles back. The 5K course proceeds up Bonneville Blvd and circles back. All courses end together in Memory Grove. The course map is below. Centipedes are 4 runners linked together by a common costume or ribbon. Each team member gets a shirt. Each team gets one bib and gets the team name on all the shirts. Each Clydesdale/Athena is a division for bigger men/women.

Chip Timing by RunSum

Chip timing services will be provided by RunSum. A text with your finishing time will be sent to the phone number used in your registration shortly after you finish. You can also use your smart phone to scan the bar code on your race bib to get your finish time. If all that isn't enough, there will be a Kiosk near the finish line providing a printout of individual finish times.

Course Map

Online Reg Closes

March 13, 2014 11:59PM MST

Fees

$15 for kids 14 and under; $25 for adults; $35 after March 9th for everyone

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